Trust your gut. Forgive yourself. Be grateful.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

Some things are best mended by a break.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.